BENJAMIN WHITROW

Previously seen at Chichester as Roald Amundsen in Terra Nova, Charles in The Last of Mrs Cheyney, Mr Reginald Stulkeley in Preserving Mr Panmure, Cranmer in Henry VIII or All Is True and Thomas Cromwell in A Man for All Seasons (Festival Theatre), Hebble Tyson in The Lady’s Not For Burning and Chrysale in The Sisterhood (Minerva Theatre)

Joined the National Theatre at the Old Vic in 1967 and appeared in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Trumpeter in Amphitron, Mathieu in A Little Hotel on the Side, Rev Espy in Racing Demon, Ephraim Smooth in Wild Oats, The Invention of Love, Peregrine in Volpone, Ensign Mullet in H, Radomsky in The Idiot, Frederick in Home and Beauty, Dr Finache in A Flea in Her Ear, Duke in The Merchant of Venice, Snake in The School for Scandal, Bessinger in The Front Page, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, What the Butler Saw and Next of Kin (Old Vic), Otherwise Engaged (Queens Theatre), Dirty Linen (Arts Theatre), Hialmar Edkel in The Wild Duck (Guildford), Ten Times Table (Gielgud), James in Passion Play, Adrian in Made in Bangkok (Aldwych Theatre), The Portage to San Christobal (Mermaid Theatre), Gayev in The Cherry Orchard (Haymarket), Lloyd in Noises Off (Savoy Theatre), Serebryakov in Uncle Vanya (Vaudeville), Dark in A Little Love (Lyric Hammersmith), Camillo in The Winter’s Tale, Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Sir Anthony Absolute in The Rivals, Shallow in Henry IV Part 2 (RSC), Headmaster in Forty Years On (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Truscott in Loot (Palace Theatre, Watford), George in Equally Divided (Duncan Weldon Productions), George Brent in Young Idea (Chester Gateway), Dr Rance in What the Butler Saw (Bath Theatre Royal).  Recently on tour with See How They Run (Birmingham Rep).

 

Television credits include Poirot, Margaret, Murder in Suburbia, We Think the World of You, Hay Fever, Minor Complications, On Approval, The Factory, Troilus and Cressida, Bergerac, A Moment in Time, A Crack in the Ice, Shackleton, Paying Guests, Victoria Wood, One Fine Day, Partners in Crime, Comign Through, Starlite Ballroom, Spoils of War, All for Love, Ffizz, Pastoral Care, Natural Causes, Harry’s Game, Tales of the Unexpected, What Have You Been Up to Lately?, Chancer, Brookside, The New Statesman, A Few Selected Exits, Peak Practice, Moving Story, Men of the World, Pride and Prejudice, The Bill, The Merchant of Venice, Inspector Morse, Embassy, Tom Jones, Blonde Bombshell, Kiss Me Kate, Jonathan Creek, Other People’s Children, Midsomer Murders, Monarch of the Glen, Henry VIII.  Films include Sauce for the Goose, Sharma and Beyond, A Man for All Seasons, Brimstone and Treacle, Clockwise, A Shocking Accident, On the Black Hill, Personal Services, Charlie, Damage, Project Samurai, Restoration, The Saint, Golden Afternoon, The Opium Wars, Jilting Joe, Chicken Run, Quadrophenia and Scenes of a Sexual Nature shortly to be released.